ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a programme in connection with 64th Independence Day in International Islamic University (IIU) on Thursday urged to root out terrorism and corruption from the country and promote the concept of welfare state.
IIU Rector Prof Fateh Malik presided over the ceremony while Director General of Dawah Academy Professor Dr Sahibzada Sajidur Rehman was the chief guest on the occasion.
Malik said that Pakistan was our identity and ‘we are proud to be Pakistanis’.
Professor Malik added that there was no importance of number game in building the ideology of nations, but the actual importance was of culture and traditions.
He said Pakistan came into being to provide a separate state to the Muslims where they could practice their religious norms and values with dignity.
Prof Malik said that the greatest challenges faced by the Pakistan were terrorism, fanaticism, corruption, economic collapse, and deprivation of nationalities living in the backward federating units and socio-economic injustices and disparities. But these were continuously being ignored or tackled half-heartedly, said Prof Malik.
He added that bread and butter was also a basic reason for creation of Pakistan as if a person struggles for bread and butter, it has no harm for his or her religion. Islam recognizes basic needs of human beings and surely bread and butter are of this kind.
IIU President Dr Mumtaz Ahmad said that no doubt Pakistanis are facing inflation, corruption, power shortages and terrorism but we have learned at every stage how to survive, and this was the strong point necessary for the survival of any nation.
He strongly condemned the debates of `failure state about Pakistan’ by some critiques and writers in the media. Ahmad said that ideology of Pakistan was being questioned by vested interests. Pakistan was established to safeguard rights of Muslims and present situation of Muslims in India is an evidence of justification of Pakistan.
Dr Sajidur Rehman said that Pakistan was the objective of the struggle of all the Muslims of sub-continent, which was historically revealed to the Muslims from the past. He added that according to Muslims the term “nation” is different from others and this was the basic reason why the Muslims of sub-continent strived for a separate country.Daily Times.
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